Franklin, MA - Modular SFC is introducing a novel, lab scale evaporation device that enables reliable, sample-safe drying of solutions containing radioactive and other toxic compounds at Pittcon 2011 in Atlanta, GA, March 13-18. The Centrifan PE Personal Evaporator is a centrifugal concentration/evaporation system that produces its own drying gas flow within the closed system, [...]

IRVINE, CALIF. and WOODLANDS, TEX. - ChromaDex Corporation (OTCBB: CDXC), and Bruker Optics Inc., a subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), announced today a co-development and co-marketing agreement that will promote a new approach to dietary supplement testing. The collaboration will capitalize on the extensive phytochemical and botanical reference standard capabilities of ChromaDex and will [...]

Boulder, CO - ASD Inc., a global leader in high-performance analytical instrumentation and materials measurement solutions, today announced a call for entries for the first annual Measurements in Mining Program to aid graduate students focused on mining, engineering and geoscience in their research efforts. The Measurement in Mining Program encourages a creative research environment within [...]

CINCINNATI - Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ:VIVO) today announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new pediatric claim for its illumigene C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) molecular amplification test. C. difficile is a bacterium that is frequently associated with antibiotic therapy often causing diarrhea and, in [...]

AUSTIN -- BaySpec, Inc., a leading supplier of UV/VIS/NIR and Raman spectral engines, and Rigaku Corporation, the world leader in analytical spectroscopic instrumentation, have signed an exclusive sales distribution agreement covering BaySpec's FirstGuardTM and XantusTM series Handheld Raman devices, covering North America, Japan and Asia-Pacific markets. Specifically designed to overcome difficult to measure "real-world" samples, [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA - MicroConstants, Inc., a bioanalytical and pharmacokinetic-specialty Contract Research Organization (CRO) in San Diego, California, announces today that it has successfully completed the installation and qualification of a new Xevo® TQ-S tandem mass spectrometer from Waters Corporation. The unparalleled speed, sensitivity and accuracy of this new LC/MS/MS system will allow MicroConstants to [...]

North Billerica, MA - Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., the leader in the design and development of instruments for assessing cellular bioenergetics, has announced In Vitro Technologies Pty Ltd as the new distributor of Seahorse XF Analyzers and consumables in Australia and New Zealand. Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzers provide the first and only kinetic method to measure [...]

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, announces the acquisition of the Water Technology Division of Wagtech International Limited on 1 March 2011 for cash consideration of £3.0 million. The acquisition, which is earnings enhancing, has been funded from Halma’s existing cash and debt facilities. The acquired business will be merged with Palintest [...]

PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Avantor™ Performance Materials Holdings S.A. has completed its acquisition of RFCL Limited from ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. Avantor, previously known as Mallinckrodt Baker, and its subsidiaries manufacture and market high-performance chemistries and materials around the world under two well-known and respected brand names, J.T.Baker® and Macron™ Chemicals (formerly Mallinckrodt® Chemicals). [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has acquired BIOCIUS Life Sciences, Inc., developer of the unique RapidFire(tm) high-throughput mass spectrometry drug-screening platform for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical markets. Financial details were not disclosed. BIOCIUS' RapidFire drug-screening technology has successfully screened millions of compounds, providing results 10 to 100 times [...]